I understand the author's sentiment but industries don't exist solely because somebody wants them to. I mean, sure, hobbies can exist, but you won't be paid well (or even at all) to work with them.

Software engineering pays because companies want people to develop software. It pays so well because it's hard, but the coding portion is become easier. Vibe coding and AI is here to stay, the author can choose to ignore it and go preach to a dying field (specifically, writing code, not CS), or embrace it. We should be happy we no longer need to type away if and for loops 20 times and instead can focus on high level architecture.

it's not LLMs vs typing for loops by hand. It's LLMs vs snippets and traditional cheap, pattern based code generation, find and replace, and traditional refactoring tools

those are still faster and cheaper and more predictable than an LLM in many cases